Dad and me (and she) and creativity
Do you have a muse? Many ongoing muses?
Who or what inspires your creativity?
Dad and me
My original muse was
Chip off the old block
Category Archives: Creative Ageing
The Divine Ms U
Art and Soulie Spot 4
stories from the creative path
Ulli Hansen
Welcome to the world of the amazing technicolour Ulli Hansen,
who landed in Art and Soul at the turn of the millennium.
I called her the grooviest woman-in-her-sixties I knew.
Later, the grooviest woman-in-her-seventies.
Without
One breath, one brushstroke, one paper towel at a time
Awash
Sally Swain © original art
Aged care. Hand-washing paraphernalia and paper towel dispensers are everywhere.
Use the paper towel in art, I say.
I attend the inaugural Creative Ageing Conference. Afterwards, I am awash with ideas and tears.
There’s the macro:
Windows fling open to the wide open sky of amazing creative ageing projects around the globe.
And there’s
Two Witches Speeding Slowly Across the Harbour in a Claw-Footed Bath
Why the weird title?
and
What comes to you when you hear the words ‘creative’ and ‘ageing’ together?
Last week
we took a peek
at middle age artiness.
This week
we open a conversation about creativity in old age.
How do we get creative around the ageing process?
The good ship Arts and Health Australia
recently launched its Celebrate Creative Ageing conference in Sydney.
I had the good
Art and Soul Space 